Glossary
The glossary includes essential terms related to the person, life, and work of Chesterton. For reasons of space it must inevitably be incomplete. It includes the most important people – family, friends, contemporaries and adversaries -, the most significant places – streets, neighborhoods, buildings, literary, cultural and religious associations – and the most important public activities – conferences, debates, meetings, congresses , election campaigns and travel.
There are currently 2 terms in this directory beginning with the letter J.
Junior Debating Club
Youth club created by Chesterton and his friend Lucian Oldershaw during the period 1890-93; the club members collaborated in The Debater, a literary review in which the club’s activities were listed.
Junoy, Josep M. (1887-1955)
Poet, journalist and writer, as well as an introducer of the European vanguard; he converted to Catholicism and became the main sponsor for the promotion of Chesterton in Catalonia through the platforms he directed (La Nova Revista) or co-directed the newspaper El Matí) and for the translation of his work into Catalan; he was a host of Chesterton and was beside him throughout his tour of Spain of spring 1926, from Madrid and Toledo to Barcelona, Tarragona, Sitges and Vilanova.